Clark Haaland
@clark_h
Clark Haaland
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”
-Brother Lawrence, Carmelite monk of the 1600s France
-Brother Lawrence, Carmelite monk of the 1600s France
Day Four: On Calling Meditation Email
An illustrated spell against indifference, a heron's antidote to fear of death, John Berger on the avenging heroes among us and the power of art
mail.google.comToo Much Of A Good Thing
This is known as an inverted-U curve:
In their paper, Too Much of a Good Thing, the psychologists Adam Grant and Barry Schwartz reveal the inverted-U-shaped relationship between nearly everything of consequence. Rooted in the ancient philosopher Aristotle’s famous concept of “the golden mean”—“happiness and success are a... See more
This is known as an inverted-U curve:
In their paper, Too Much of a Good Thing, the psychologists Adam Grant and Barry Schwartz reveal the inverted-U-shaped relationship between nearly everything of consequence. Rooted in the ancient philosopher Aristotle’s famous concept of “the golden mean”—“happiness and success are a... See more
SIX at 6: The Inverted-U, Killing Pleasure, The Goldilocks Zone, Too Much Cake, Immigrants To Wealth, and Enough
Billy Oppenheimer
I wrote in Faith, Hope and Carnage , ‘Hope is optimism with a broken heart'. This means that hope has an earned understanding of the sorrowful or corrupted nature of things, yet it rises to attend to the world even still. We understand that our demoralisation becomes the most serious impediment to bettering the world. In its active form, hope is a... See more
The Red Hand Files Issue #308
Nick Cave Quote:
“You have created us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
-St. Augustine of Hippo, 4th Century African Bishop
-St. Augustine of Hippo, 4th Century African Bishop
Day One: On Calling Meditation Video
Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend